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| | Black-Market Weapon Prices Surge in Iraq Chaos - New York Times |
 | | The market for this American-issued pistol and the ubiquitous assault rifle illustrated how fear, mismanagement and malfeasance are shaping the small-arms market in Iraq. |
 | | These are three of the principal types of the 370,000 weapons purchased by the United States for Iraq’s security forces, a program that was criticized by a special inspector general this fall for, among other things, failing to properly account for the arms. |
 | | The weapons are easy to find, resting among others in the semihidden street markets here, where weapons are sold in tea houses, the back rooms of grocery kiosks, cosmetics stores and rug shops, or from the trunks of cars. |
| www.nytimes.com /2006/12/10/world/middleeast/10weapons.html?ex=1323406800&en=d09a572021ade4b1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1039 words) |
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